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...Sing them silent, dance them still and laugh them into an open shame!'' cries The Dreamer. And the Old Woman scorns the impotent Bishop's sister in words that might have come from James Joyce : "Salaam, mem pukka memsahib. en' pardon her, en' pardon me, en' pardon us all for getting in the way of thy greatness; en' grant us grace to have faith in thy dignity en' importance, per benedicte pax hugger muggery ora pro puggery rigmarolum...
...Vagabond stirred uneasily in his cell in Mem Hall tower. What was this noise that broke in on his reverie? What bedlam dared intrude on his solitude? Outside, on Kirkland Street, on Broadway, on Mass Avenue the clatter of the American Railway Express, the long-distance moving vans and the less shiny, but far more serviceable vans of local concerns broke the silence of a dismal September...
Drastic punishment will be handed out to any student who attempts to disturb the peace of Hanfstaengl's reunion, authorities made known yesterday. Mem bers of the N. S. L. and other anti-Nazi organizations had not last night registered any concerted protest at the latest turn of events but merely mentioned that the jurisdiction of the College would not cover the events of next week. In that case any violence would be handled by the city police...
...Vagabond had long since quit his lonely vigil high up amid Mem Hall's cobwebs and dust. The atmosphere there was stifling--stifling, and this was spring. It was spring. But the Vagabond had seen many springs and spring was always the same...
...jail last week. At the same time a new Burgomaster, for whom not one Viennese had voted, was inducted into office with considerable ceremony in the neo-Gothic Rathaus. Appointed directly by Chancellor Dollfuss. Burgomaster Richard Schmitz is a fellow War veteran, a fellow Catholic, a fellow mem ber of the Christian Socialist Party and a onetime Vice Chancellor of Austria. He appeared in the city hall wearing round his neck the golden chain of office of Vienna's Burgomasters, first time it had been worn since the Socialist administration discarded it after the War as a useless bourgeois...